Letter to the editor: No winners from federal budget crisis

According to the analysis offered, the "winners" [in the government shutdown and debt ceiling crisis] were President Obama, the tea party, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Women in the Senate, and the "losers" were House Speaker John Boehner and the GOP in the 2014 election.

There are no winners. It seems to me, the people of the United States are the losers. And there's still no action on the farm bill.

I pray that our legislators will take care of business the way it needs to be, for the American people and for to feed their own egos.

- Mary Ramsden, Des Moines

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Letter to the editor: No winners from federal budget crisis

According to the analysis offered, the 'winners' [in the government shutdown and debt ceiling crisis] were President Obama, the tea party, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Women in the Senate, and the '